{"id":246053,"date":"2004-11-09T11:17:19","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T16:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/11\/bahamas-drug-smugglers-busted-off-gold-coast-sunday"},"modified":"2004-11-09T11:17:19","modified_gmt":"2004-11-09T16:17:19","slug":"bahamas-drug-smugglers-busted-off-gold-coast-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/11\/bahamas-drug-smugglers-busted-off-gold-coast-sunday","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Drug Smugglers Busted Off Gold Coast Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Two men are in federal custody in Boca Raton after trying to smuggle 900 pounds of marijuana into the country.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Officials on a U.S. Customs and Border Protection jet from Homestead, Fla., intercepted the suspicious boat and demanded that it stop Sunday as it sped toward the Gold Coast.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Two U.S. Customs boats then joined the chase and stopped the boat minutes later, less than nine miles offshore. Authorities seized $900,000-worth of 60-pound marijuana bales. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Kenrick Brown, 33, and Gary Charles Russell, 32, both of the Bahamas, were arrested and charged with attempting to illegally import narcotics, and are in custody.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><B>The Associated Press<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities seized $900,000-worth of 60-pound marijuana bales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}